So, all in all, a very pleasurable watch and something I can recommend to anyone. Music choice was very fitting and acting was good enough not to be falling out of place with the rest. The adventures of the guy are interesting to follow, even though they aren't all that different from what most people go through at one or other stage of life. All in all a really nicely designed film that belongs in the small theaters and in the art-houses. And at the end it all adds up and the completed picture is seen in all its beauty. It is like watching a painting being painted, like watching a poem being written, like listening to a song being composed. This film is filled to the rim with the most beautiful stills, completed with several speeds of motion and feels right. What follows is best seen instead of read about. Himself adding yet another way of dealing with that boredom. He decides to make the best of it and starts working the night shift in a supermarket where he is met with a new kind of boredom and several people that deal with that boredom in different ways. 8 more hours in which he feels the pain of love gone sour.
As a result of this the guy becomes an insomniac and suddenly finds himself with 8 more hours in the day. Reviewed by LazySod 9 /10 To see beauty in everythingĪ guy and his girl break up. "Cashback" is a sweet little masterpiece. And no other film I saw at the Toronto Film Festival did that to me. It rests on his shoulders, and he owns the material.Īs they say, you'll laugh, you'll cry, and I walked out with a tear in my eye and a smile on my face. The camera loves him, and he is on screen virtually from opening to closing credits. His star tun in this film as protagonist Ben Willis left me speechless. Most of all, I believe "Cashback" is the vehicle which will introduce newcomer Sean Biggerstaff (Oliver Wood of "Harry Potter") to the world. They combine to give this low budget project a big movie feel, destined for the wide audience it deserves. The look is lush, cinematography by Angus Hudson breathtaking, and "Cashback" features an appropriately sweet score. The concept is brilliant and the result magnificent. It may sound like sci-fi, but this is a sweet romantic comedy whose storyline is among the most original I've ever seen on screen. The result is an eerie, compelling twist on the classic Outer Limits episode where time stops while the protagonist weaves in and out of the frozen characters in another dimension. And he pulled it off with a tour de force of light and sound. Rather than take his 20 minute piece and expand it to fill 90 minutes, he created a new Act One and Act Three to bookend a reworking of the original short in the center.
Literally built around the short film of the same name which screened at festivals in 2004, triple threat writer/director/producer Sean Ellis did something ingenious.
CASHBACK MOVIE CAST PLUS
Of the 30 plus films I saw that week, "Cashback" tops the list.
I still had about 20 films to go at the time, and "Cashback" raised the bar and became the benchmark against which all the others would have to be compared. I had a feeling I'd seen something special, that moment when you have to pause to take a breath and reflect on what you've experienced. I attended the world premiere of "Cashback" at the Toronto International Film Festival. Reviewed by larry-411 10 /10 A sweet little masterpiece
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